Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-30
TEXAS TOPICS.
Mechanics in Bowie are busy.

Albany SHIPS beef by the train load.
Willis is Dragging of It's high school.
The Alvord Budget is advocating pecsl
orchards.
Crosby county expects to have new
courthouse ere long
The Corsicana compress has handled
over 5000 bales OF cotton.
Tue people of Esst Corsicana are still
crying for system of sewerage.
Temple is wrestling with the water sup
ply problem. OGe proposition is to go L
the Leon river for water.
| Jack county farmers report early whea
looking well, but late sowing is needing
rain.
The Santa Anna Coleman county
News says: "Tne farmers are surprising
the chronic "drouth grumblers" by the
immense quantity of cotton they are haul
ing to the gin daily"
There Is q fl je season in the ground
this fall. Grass is flne, as good as it has
been for years. Cattle, horses and sheep
are oil fat and sleek, ard the ranchmen
are happy t Albany News.
Thirty bushels from one tree, worth 50
per busheI, $780, An orange orchard in
florida or California is poor investment
when compared with a pecan orchard in
West Texas rnrockmorton Times.
Twenty five pecan trees to the acre,
five bushels to the tree, low estimste
when the trees are cultivated and pruned,
gives 125 bushels, 50 per hushel gives
$3.50 per acre per year. Better than an
orange orchard. Plant some Throck-
morton Times.
1t is said that Judge Ford viii bring
suit against the commissioners court be
cause that bo6V refused to increase his
salary. The judge reads the law one
way and the county commissioners read
It the opposite to his honor. Let the
case come up at once, II the suit is
brought = Bowie Cross Timbers.
A Bsggett. T. J. Latham, c. A. Bag.
gett and William Dykes recently gathered
twenty five bushels of pecans from one
rec, in addition to FIVE bushels previous
ly gathered from the same tree by othrr
Clear Fork. This is the largest yield yet
heard of from one tree Breckenridge
ctXisn.
L. anybody aware Of the feet that
Qnansh has near her city limits az foe
water power as the state Of Texas ffJros?
And from the appearance Of our broad
wheat fields the time is not far distant
when fJuriDg mills will be singing their
hum of industry and prosperity in our
midst. Think of the iDexhaustible sup
ply of building stone so near US that ere
long will pave our streets with miles If
walks, and OF solid blocks of brick and
stone that will soon supersede the wood
buildings of the present day.-[Quanah
Adysnce.
The Albany News is urging tie people
to plant pecan orchards with all its might
and main The News says: "There is
surer money in a pecan grove in Texas
than in an orange grove in California
Plant an acre or so Of your low
lands in pecans. OVeIfows don's
seem TO injure the young trees"
II you do pant p cans do 1t right
Plow four or five burrows aad plant
the nuts in the middle and then keep the
wreds down for a year or so.
The pecan crop of Shsckleford brought
10 mUre money than the cotton, wheat
and cat crops combined. The men that
own land and fail to plant pecan grove
will live to see the day that theY will re
gret their short-sighted policy"
What glorious climate we have here
in Texas. It ls good for the farmer, it is
xcellent for the stockmsD, and it is ex-
tremely pleasant to everybody. 1t is now
the 11Eh of NIvem er, and at this late
late vegetation has been only partially
killed by frost. In many places
sweet potato vines, tomato vines, etc,
,re as green as they ever We're M.iJr
J. F Bucks garden is beautiful sig1t
to behold Odlv dav or two ago he picked
a half bushel Of a. fine string beans from
1t as eyes ever beheld And his garden
is only one of many that might be
and they all go to
show what the men with vii
and skill can do here. The farmer has a.
least month longer here in which to
mature and gather his crop than in almost
any other place in the United States. Let
us appreciate our advantages Taylor
County News.